Re: Use TS 4.0 for manual trade tracking?

["Dan Visanescu" <dvisa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don

Thanks for the reply.  It is an interesting concept.

Since I never took up ELA, I will probably do it entirely within Excel, or
Lotus 123.

Thanks

Dan Visanescu


----- Original Message -----
From: Don C <countach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <dvisa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ian.frost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 1999 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: Use TS 4.0 for manual trade tracking?


> But Dan, my TS systems do approximately that.  Entering the parameters
> is a little more time-comsuming than entering in a spreadsheet, because
> with the spreasheet you have all fields exposed at once.  But I think my
> approach is better than embedding the parameters in a system.  As far as
> I know you can't input to TS via DDE (only output).
>
> But there is another approach - use Excel to track the trades rather
> than TS.  I used to have a spreadsheet that did this (real time) to keep
> the day's total on all trades (closed trades disappear from the TS
> system tracking log).  But I lost the spreadsheet in a disk crash, and
> haven't recreated it.  But using DDE you can get all the prices into
> Excel, so you can essentailly create the system there.  And the
> advantage to this approach is that the trades stay posted after being
> closed.
>
> AS for graphing, that's a tall order. There are things I would like to
> graph directly out of a system, but must export to a file then import to
> Excel.  TS just doesn't have that capability.
>
> don
>
> ===============================
> >Subject:
> >        Re: Use TS 4.0 for manual trade tracking?
> >  Date:
> >        Sat, 10 Apr 1999 22:04:27 -0400
> >  From:
> >        "Dan Visanescu" <dvisa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >    To:
> >        "Omega-List" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> >I have been following this thread for a while.
> >
> >For what it's worth, there is a company, Titan Analytics (no affiliation)
in
> >Nanaimo, BC, that sometime back was developing an TS add-on to do just
that
> >(real-time Virtual Trader).  I am sure it would have been in the
$500-$1000
> >range.
> >
> >I would like to graph and summarize orders intra-day, and changing the
dates
> >and times in the system would be cumbersome and impractical as I trade.
> >
> >Does anybody know if Trade Station could for that purpose read an Excel
> >spreadsheet, let's say, where date, time, price could be entered as the
> >(discretionary) orders are placed?
> >
> >Dan Visanescu
>